(W2 ONLY) M365/SharePoint Administrator L3

Location: Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities

• Administer and support On-premises Exchange 2019 / SE and M365 workloads (EXO, SPO, Teams & OneDrive)
• Manage Exchange 2019 High Availability (HA) and Database Availability Groups (DAG)
• Configure and troubleshoot Hybrid Mail flow, Edge Servers, security, and Exchange patching
• Ensure client connectivity and resolve related issues
• Develop and maintain scripts using PowerShell for automation and operational tasks
• Administer Microsoft SharePoint Server (on-premise) environments, with a focus on SharePoint Server 2019
• Support large, enterprise-scale SharePoint farms (single/multi-farm, multi-tier architecture)
• Operate SharePoint in production environments with strict availability, security, and change management controls
• Perform SharePoint farm administration, including Central Administration and service applications
• Manage site collections, sites, lists, libraries, templates, and permissions (AD groups, SharePoint groups, inheritance, least privilege models)
• Configure and troubleshoot User Profile Service (UPS), Managed Metadata Service, Search Service, Secure Store, State Service, and other core service applications
• Resolve user access issues, permission corruption, profile resets, and access denied scenarios
• Execute SharePoint Server 2019 patching (Cumulative Updates / Security Updates), including pre-patch validation, patch sequencing, and post-patch health checks
• Coordinate patching with SQL Server and Windows Server updates and troubleshoot post-patch issues (search failures, timer jobs, service outages)
• Automate tasks using SharePoint Management Shell / PowerShell, including farm health checks, bulk operations, service application administration, and scripted backup/restore/cleanup tasks
• Write, modify, and maintain custom PowerShell scripts for operational automation
• Perform farm-level, web application, and site collection backups and restores
• Implement SQL-level and SharePoint native backup/restore strategies
• Support disaster recovery (DR) testing and recovery activities and troubleshoot restore failures and content database issues
• Administer IIS for SharePoint (application pools, bindings, certificates, authentication settings)
• Manage Windows Server administration related to SharePoint farms
• Support SQL Server used by SharePoint, including content databases, service application databases, and basic performance troubleshooting (locks, growth, capacity planning)
• Coordinate with DBAs on maintenance and failovers
• Analyze ULS logs, IIS logs, Event Viewer, and SQL errors for root cause analysis
• Monitor and troubleshoot SharePoint incidents and outages, including performance degradation, search and crawl failures, authentication and access issues, and timer job/service failures
• Utilize monitoring and alerting tools (APM, synthetic monitoring, log aggregation such as Splunk)
• Implement and support SharePoint security baselines, hardening standards, permission reviews, audits, and remediation
• Handle audit or compliance-driven requests related to SharePoint data access
• Follow enterprise change control and incident management processes

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Exchange 2019 / 2016 On-premises and M365 (Exchange, Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint)
• 10+ years of hands-on experience administering Microsoft SharePoint Server (on-premise) environments, with a strong focus on SharePoint Server 2019
• Proven experience supporting large, enterprise-scale SharePoint farms
• Certification on M365 / Exchange / SharePoint (preferred)

Skills

• Proficiency in scripting and PowerShell
• Strong hands-on expertise in SharePoint farm administration, including Central Administration and service applications
• Experience with SharePoint patching, maintenance, and upgrades
• Experience with SharePoint backup, restore, and disaster recovery
• Working knowledge of IIS, Windows Server, and SQL Server administration related to SharePoint
• Experience with monitoring and troubleshooting SharePoint incidents and outages
• Understanding of SharePoint security and compliance requirements

Nice to Have

• Experience with SharePoint Server Subscription Edition or upgrade planning
• Exposure to SharePoint Online / Hybrid environments
• Experience supporting migration projects from SharePoint 2019 to SharePoint Online
• Ability to document operational runbooks and standard operating procedures (SOPs)